All You Really Want Is Peace

Divine Mercy Days 11-14

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If you are just joining us, or trying to figure out what this challenge is all about, you can dive right in here or access previous content with these links:

Days 1-4, Days 5-7, and Days 8-10

All we want is peace.

Today, I want to remind you of one of the most important gifts from growing in a relationship with Jesus: PEACE. Jesus promises us peace if we entrust ourselves to his Divine Mercy. He told St. Faustina:

“Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.” (Diary, 300)

And if you think about it, peace is all we ever really want. Not in some hippie kind of way, but in an honest, human way. We want peace. You might pray to be cured of an illness, but what you really want is peace about your health. You might pray for a conflict to be resolved in a relationship— you want peace. You might pray about a financial worry, but what you really want is peace about your finances. Even if the details of a difficult situation never change, it doesn’t matter, as long as you have peace.

So, here’s another simple assignment.

Today, change one of your specific prayer petitions to a prayer for peace instead. What is something you want to pray for? Health, healing, work, or other specific problems? Entrust that thing to Jesus’ Divine Mercy, and ask for the gift of peace in that part of your life. Don’t dictate what God should do; open yourself up to what God will do.

Daily Challenges

Now here’s the next small batch of daily content for you. Today, we’re sharing the content for days 11-14 of this challenge.

Here’s what’s included for each day below:

☑️ Theme: a focus point for our meditation

☑️ Lectio Divina: audio file of a 5-minute guided meditation, praying with Scripture, focused on the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

☑️ Question: for journaling on your own or discussing right here in the comments

☑️ Action: a simple prompt to put our daily theme into action in your everyday life.

☑️ BONUS Live Video: At the end of the 21 days, we’ll have a live Zoom call discussion on Wednesday, August 28 !

Are you ready to keep going? Let’s go!